Volume 18 , Issue 27

1912, Scared Off the Ticket

Does any of the things that happened during the 1912 election seem similar today, 2016

In the Salina, Kansas newspaper, The Salina Daily Union, dated 21 September 1912, Saturday, on page 4, we found this article concerning the republican split where the Bull Moose party was organizing under Teddy Roosevelt, "Scared Off the Ticket."

Found on Newspapers.com

The Bull Moose candidates, Stubbs, Capper, Murdock, Jackson, Reese, Young and others were thoroughly alarmed at the conditions in the state, and they had prevailed on Roosevelt to allow them to take his electors off the Republican ticket and the plan was for Roosevelt when he reaches Kansas to pretend that he had not been pleased with the action of his followers, and to make a great noise in favor of cutting loose, from both the old parties and putting his electors on an independent, third term Bull Moose ticket.

Of course he had been with Stubbs, Capper and the balance of the Bull Moose candidates, who had been trying to steal the Republican ticket bodily and carry the party over to the third term party after the election, while trying to win in the name of the party at the coming election.

The transparent trick was seen by the people. The regular republicans were mad through and through. They had enough votes to defeat not alone the Roosevelt electors, but the entire gang of Bull Moose candidates, by voting the Democratic ticket, and they had scared these tricksters. The result was they had decided to take the Roosevelt electors off the Republican ticket, and they were only waiting for Roosevelt to come and make his hypocritical talk about the matter, and claim that he had been against it all along.

Nothing could be done then to save Kansas to the dough faces. They were beaten, and each move from this on would only enable them more and more in the web woven by themselves. Wilson would carry Kansas. Hodges would carry Kansas. Thompson would carry Kansas, and all the the Bull Moose congressional candidates from Murdock to Reese, would be beaten.
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